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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Re ports of unidentified lying ob jects — UFOs — boomed last year, reports Maj. Hector Quin itanisla, director of Project Glue ‘Book at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. But whatever the sightings are, it's a safe bet they offer no threat to national security and don’t come from outer space, the Air force says. A total of 1,060 sightings were submitted to the Air Force dur ing 1986, second highest total Since Blue Book began keeping labs 20 years ago. The annual average is $55, the record Look in 1952. Of the $1,407 sightings since 1947, Quintanilla says, just 675 remain in the unidentified cate gory. Only 40 of those checked out last year haven’t been ex- Dlaimed satisfactory. Another 442 sightings are list ed as having insufficient data for identification. The rest were identified as astronomical objects, aircraft, balloons, satellites and other natural or man-made items such as missiles, rockets, fire works, clouds, birds, swamp gas, sparks, and a lighthouse. ‘To date, Project Blue Book the Air Fore investigative authority on aerial phenomena — offers these Yim conghi sians. 1. No unidentified flying ar tech reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any intication of wear to U.S. security. 2. No evidence has been dis covered to indicate that any sightings categorizer as uniden tified represent technological development of principles be yor the range of present-day scientific knowledge. 3. There has been no evidence that any unidentified sightings were outer space vehicles. A sighting is considered un identified, the major says, when a report apparently contains all pertinent data necessary to sug gest a valid cause or explana tion of the report, but the de scription of the object or its mo us cannot be correlated with any known object or phenome non. Meanwhile, sightings contin ue. The Weather Bureau at Cine apni was swamped with UFO calls Montag — all evidently connected with a feather bal loon. Its instrument-packed gon dola, believed fariiched at Palestine,Tex, fell to earth in a avin mine pit in southeastern Ohio.
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 14, 1967
Page 12
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